Sarah Silbiger (COM’18), a frequent member of the press pool photographing President Trump, outside the White House. Photo by Stefani Reynolds
On the eve of the 2016 election, Sarah Silbiger was stuck in a corner of the media area at a Donald Trump rally in Manchester, N.H. Blinded by a laser-light show, deafened by blaring music, and gagging from a nearby smoke machine, the aspiring photojournalist came to a decision. “I remember feeling so miserable and so happy at the same time,” she says. “And I realized that I wanted to photograph politics.”
Then a junior on assignment for the Daily Free Press, Silbiger (COM’18) began plotting a post-college move to Washington, D.C. She applied for about 50 internships, she says, before landing at Roll Call, the Washington newspaper and website covering Capitol Hill, in 2018. She moved to the New York Times a few months later and soon found herself in the Oval Office. Now a freelancer with a steady flow of work from the Times, the Washington Post, the Getty, Reuters, and other major news outlets, Silbiger is photographing D.C.’s biggest names—Trump, Pelosi, Mueller—on a daily basis.
Read the full article in Bostonia.